Module 9: Case Study 3 Making Cuts in a Health Department Budget Elizabeth Mahan HCA415: Community and Public Health Instructor: Kristin Akerele April 1‚ 2017 Module 9: Case Study 3 Making Cuts in a Health Department Budget 1. Explain how the four bioethical principles should guide budgetary decisions in the public health realm. The bioethical principles are autonomy‚ beneficence‚ maleficence‚ and justice. Non-maleficence means to “first do no harm”. In a clinical setting‚ do no harm could
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government and render health care services to the people who cannot afford to pay high expenses to their health care needs. These hospitals serve anyone and every person that needs help especially the poor ones. Public hospitals are not equipped with the latest technologies in medicine. But then‚ most Filipinos seek for advice from these government hospitals because charges are not implemented. They may or may not operate profitably. Their main function is to provide health care services. Public hospitals
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to health services research. Existing ethical guidelines do not help us decide how to seek consent and have allowed managerial experimentation to remain unchecked. Do you think that alternative forms of community consent should be actively pursued? Why or why not? Read the following article from the Proquest database on South University’s Online Library. It will help you address the question better. "Why we should not seek individual informed consent for participation in health services research
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Introduction The issue today’s fire service is how to justify fire departments operating budgets when the rate of actual calls for structured fires are on the decline. Post 9/11 the federal government set aside millions of dollars in grant money for apparatus equipment and training supplementing operational costs of fire departments across America. With the depletion of those federal monies‚ local governments are scrutinizing their budgets overall in attempts to cut corners and keep the cost within
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Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Joyan Thomas University of Phoenix Online OPS/HC 571 Patience McGee March 7‚ 2011 Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Introduction Most hospitals experience the affects of the unexpected‚ ambiguity and uncertainty‚ and as a result‚ face challenges with quality. Middletown Hospital is a 200-bed general not-for-profit hospital. The hospital has a 20-bed Emergency Department (ED). It averages 100 patients per day. The CEO of the hospital
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Annotated Bibliography Candeece Lucas Dr. Jason Human Services & Social Policies Kaplan University This research of annotated bibliography provides coverage in regards to history of social welfare and the individuals impact both social and economically. The addition of the research will incorporate the roles of social workers in the human service field in assisting clients. The research will include questionnaire survey conducted in performing advocacy for child welfare
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In the case of Katz v. United states‚ 1967‚ The FBI agents acted on a suspicion that Katz maybe transmitting gambling information over the phone to other people in other states. Katz was using a public phone booth to conduct the transactions of information ("Findlaw’s United States Supreme Court Case And Opinions."). The FBI agents then proceeded to attach an eavesdropping device to the outside of the phone booth to record his conversations. With all the recoding that the FBI could get‚ they
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For this project we have been asked by the Health Service Executive in Ireland to suggest a cloud solution for migrating some of their current IT infrastructure to the cloud. They have also discussed with us the possibility of establishing an electronic health records (ERH) system and migrating patients’ medical records to the cloud. The adoption of Cloud Computing is a relatively new idea to the health industry and so far few National Health Services have adopted this due to the security risk
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How Does Workman Compensation Work? By Tom Streissguth‚ eHow Contributor * * * * Print this article Workers’ compensation insurance developed in the late 19th century as an important benefit for employees who were not protected from illness or injuries suffered on the job. Before workers’ comp laws were passed‚ injured workers often had few resources with which to treat their injuries and no means of physical rehabilitation and returning to the work force. Workers’ comp
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Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services‚ Inc. 545 U.S. 546 (2005) Facts of the Case: In 1991 about 10‚000 Exxon dealers sued Exxon Corporation in federal court‚ alleging that the corporation had engaged in an extensive scheme to overcharge them for fuel. A jury found in favor of the plaintiffs‚ but the District Court judge certified the case for review on the question of supplemental jurisdiction. Some of the multiple plaintiffs in the case had claims that did not meet the minimum amount necessary
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